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by bobsoap 3y ago
That's presumably because HA is categorically outside the author's field of view, not being a branded corporate plug'n'play product with a marketing budget, but open-source with "DIY" in the first paragraph on
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by bobsoap 3y ago
Ok, Google. I'll bite. So you send me an email today titled "[Update] Google passkey support will replace your built-in security key starting May 3, 2023". It was in my spam folder, but I digress. This "update" kind
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by bobsoap 3y ago
The site looks good, it's clean and I like the functionality, but the fact that you only list online/neo banks (presumably because they have an affiliate program, while (some) traditional banks may not) means it's an incomple
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by bobsoap 4y ago
It's a LLM, not sentient. It doesn't know what "cannot" and "will not" means or implies. You're trying to interpret its output as you would a thinking person's. I'd put it this way: when GPT refu
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by bobsoap 4y ago
> As the hoodie uses IR light, it’s [sic] effects are imperceptible by human eyes when activated, only effecting IR sensitive equipment.
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by bobsoap 4y ago
For reading at night, I got an "amber book light" @1800K that basically looks like a 5" clip that you stick on the book. You charge it with a USB connector on one end that's hidden under a cap, and it claims to emit no b
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by bobsoap 4y ago
...which, ironically, may constitute a net win, or even a desired effect, in the eyes of the proponents of government surveillance.
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by bobsoap 4y ago
Two bags of chips. With or without the chips. https://usa.kaspersky.com/blog/terminator-dark-fate-chips/18...
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by bobsoap 4y ago
BMW's L2 is pretty good 99% of of the time. I can't remember when I had to intervene the last time. The only issues it still has are with those low boulders/walls that divert a lane at construction sites or so, especially whe
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by bobsoap 5y ago
I'm currently learning Spanish and got the original version my first month in. My plan was too ambitious - I didn't get very far on my first try. I look forward to my next one once I'm more proficient.
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by bobsoap 5y ago
Ilium and Olympos by Dan Simmons. Fantastic blend of sci-fi and (alternate) ancient history. Give it a try if you like grand world-building and a really fun imagination.
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The Kenyan Twitter disinformation campaign to discredit the Pandora Papers(globalvoices.org)
4 points by bobsoap 5y ago|1 comments
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by bobsoap 5y ago
Agreed, and I'm not OP, but I'd define "general education" to include concepts like effective fact-checking and media literacy, and not just for our children but for older folks as well. I think a big part of the issue a
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by bobsoap 5y ago
I've used domainagents.com in the past with success. They've been around forever.
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by bobsoap 5y ago
> BGI said in a statement it “has never been asked to provide – nor provided – data from its NIFTY tests to Chinese authorities for national security or national defense security purposes.” ...as if those two very specific use cases are
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by bobsoap 5y ago
Maybe because it's a post about Brezeln, not Pumpernickel? (Sorry, couldn't resist) Pumpernickel is more of a northern thing. Brezeln are mostly a southern thing. There are plenty more (and very different) things in-between too. T
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by bobsoap 6y ago
Finally, reality catches up with spy movies and police-procedural TV shows.
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by bobsoap 6y ago
Their status page just says "Trello is slow", which implies it's still working in principle. However, I haven't even been able to authenticate for the past 45 minutes or so - for me, it's broken, not slow. I do see
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by bobsoap 6y ago
> The researchers found that it took Jiuzhang approximately 200 seconds to provide an answer. They noted that it would have taken the world's fastest supercomputer approximately 2.5 billion years to carry out the same calculations—a
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Chinese photonic quantum computer demonstrates quantum supremacy(phys.org)
7 points by bobsoap 6y ago|1 comments
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by bobsoap 6y ago
He said he couldn't cancel. The article is not that long, it's not hard to find.
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by bobsoap 6y ago
The Alps. Anywhere in the corridor between the South of France or Germany over to Austria and northern Italy.
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by bobsoap 6y ago
I think a big one is that there is simply no long-term data available pertaining to injecting an agent that directly modifies your DNA, as opposed to triggering your body's established process to make such a change itself.
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by bobsoap 6y ago
Private = only you, and no one else, not even Google.
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by bobsoap 6y ago
I see a business model there. Netflix Decision Model Optimization (NDMO). The new SEO.
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Apple and Epic Games Spar over Returning Fortnite to the App Store(nytimes.com)
1 points by bobsoap 6y ago|0 comments
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by bobsoap 6y ago
Clever!
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by bobsoap 6y ago
Vote with your wallet. E.g. when grocery shopping: Bring your own reuseable bags. Stop putting vegetable/fruit in a plastic bag each. You're gonna wash them anyway. Avoid buying veggies, fruit, sweets, whatever that's first w
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by bobsoap 6y ago
I love how the notion of entropy permeates into so many other things. It's fundamental, universal, and at the heart of nearly every aspect of our existence. Take philosophy. If the ultimate state of everything culminates in chaos (acco
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by bobsoap 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what are those barriers?

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